mid 90's today

[DailyCommuter]

Takes every bit of my atgatt will power to stay the course in this heat! I can't wait for the thunderstorms later today! It'll make the ride home a little cooler today! Does every one still wear the jackets and gloves in heat like this. Or am I the only asshat wearing a black kiliminjaro in the heat?

 

[angus]

I have been riding everyday with heat index over 100 with gloves jacket and Full face Helmet I do have a Silver Eagle vest that you soak in water which helps a lot if your moving 108 miles round trip.

 

[ionbeam]

ATGATT, my armored mesh coat & pants are hanging up here at work, my gloves are parked next to my helmet and my boots are on the bottom of the coat rack. While this 90 - 100 degree heat and high humidity melts us Yankees, it's the Gulf coast guys that really get the heat and it lasts for months, I dunno how they can take it. (FWIW, I'm a Bama boy, lived many places in the Gulf area for ~20 yrs.)

Last week my wife and I commuted to work together in the thunderstorms. Looks like she needs some rain gear upgrades because she arrived to work wet and her mesh was still wet when she left work at the end of the day.

 

[stormrider]

Personally.... if it is to hot to be ATGATT then I do not ride

 

[Crash Cash]

Try it in Florida, with 90% humidity! I have to admit I went to the Tourmaster Draft mesh jacket. I still have the gloves & Nolan full-face.

Man, the other week at the mall I said "it's just across the parking lot, I don't need my gloves" and scorched the hell out of my hands.

 

[Inlaw1]

Yep, all the gear. Usually that includes a one piece Fieldsheer Highland suit, full face, boots, gloves. But I concede to a perforated Joe Rocket jacket and jeans (Courtech riding jeans on weekends) when the temps are past 90 degrees.

 

[Inlaw1]

it's the Gulf coast guys that really get the heat and it lasts for months, I dunno how they can take it.

I do ride less in the summer than winter around here!

 

[JRO]

After years of enduring and enjoying the heat & humidity of the Oklahoma tropics, my son and daughter-in-law forced an armored mesh riding suit on me. It feels like a towel. If I hit the pavement, I think I'd die. The thing was even hotter than my leathers, and I thought I was going to pass out - Then they showed me how to remove the rain liner.

I don't feel as secure as I do in my leathers, but I'm trying to get used to it. When the heat gets to be too much, you have to do something, and these days, the heat has started to affect me. I may look stupid, but I think I look stupid riding around in racing leathers, too. I had to get used to that a few years back, until I can't imagine being without them. I supose 'going mesh' is better than going without, and it beats falling off from heat prostration.

 

[jmarran]

I didn't ride in this morning because aside from the mid 90's and lack of speed I get from my semi-short commute, my gut was just telling me it wouldn't be a good day. Now I know why.

...TORNADO WATCH 499 IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS...EAST

CENTRAL NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN VERMONT.

TORNADO WATCH.

A WIDESPREAD SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTBREAK IS EXPECTED

THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SUPERCELLS WILL FORM ALONG AND AHEAD

OF A COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON...AND ORGANIZE INTO A SQUALL LINE.

THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND

ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE.

ATTGATT or not - no freaking way I even want my bike sitting out in the parking lot if a storm gets this severe!

 

[DailyCommuter]

Well I may have to wait it out, not sure what time I will be getting out of work anyway. I am a little retarded, but I aint full fledged nuts! Waltham to south plymouth is my ride.

 

[NoCage]

Mid-90's in Alabama lately. I skip the riding pants in this heat/humidity, but still wear the mesh jacket, full-face helmet, gloves and boots. Sometimes I actually hope I get rained on for the commute home, it's much cooler.

Oh, as a reminder, don't forget to use sidestand pucks if you're parking on asphalt in this heat.

 

[brazos parker]

ATGATT for me. My only concession is I switch from Olympia Air Glide II pants to Draggin' Jeans w/ knee pads when I go to the gym...a very short ride.

 

[Scout]

Man, all this talk of hot rides makes me jealous! It's 50 degrees F. outside right now and they are just cleaning up the remains of the big tree that was blown over last night in the parking lot from all the high wind and rain we had last night! Not bad for November in the Northwest... 'cept it's June for crying out loud! Long range forecast is for more of the same through July... yuk! I don't know about Global Warming, but something sure seems out of whack lately...

 

[wfooshee]

ATTGATT, rarely I'll skip the pants, maybe when riding to lunch from work.

Last week I cheated and tucked my laces into my sneakers, put on the helmet, and rode to lunch. Hadn't gotten 3 blocks when some dipshit pulled out from the curb after parking the wrong direction!!!! Came at me head on and then saw me and stopped, right in my lane. I was able to go around, but swore off the ATTGATT cheating!

 

[luvtoride]

Personally.... if it is to hot to be ATGATT then I do not ride

Egg-fukin'-xactly my view, also. After all, I ride a chestnut cooker. Over 90 degrees w/ 70-80% humidity has me in the car w/ AC

 

[EODSarge]

I think I lost 20 pounds riding Sunday, and every one of the cruisers I was riding with now considers me crazy for riding with a leather jacket and gloves. I think I heard "You either ride for comfort or ride to crash!" about a dozen times. I'm not going to do without the gear... but I'm seriously looking at a mesh-type textile jacket. I've had a leather jacket for years.

 

[jekirby]

Calling on customers in Richmond, VA yesterday and this morning. It got to 101 yesterday and I only saw 95 today until I got in the a/c at home in Salem. Black cycleport kevlar. I was suprised how un-blast furnace like it was. It was warm, but as long as I was.....er.....glistening, it was suprisingly tollerable. Under armor type shirt really helped. I got stopped after having lunch in Lynchburg by an older couple talking about m/c's and such and after about 20 minutes in the sun, I could still tollerate it. I do not know if the silver/gray would have been any cooler, but it has now officially met my expectations. Don't get wrong, if I had to go across town to meet clients, a/c laden truck all the way B) -gas $ beat out comfort on a two tank round trip(150 in the truck vs 40).

 

[TILAM]

I think I lost 20 pounds riding Sunday, and every one of the cruisers I was riding with now considers me crazy for riding with a leather jacket and gloves. I think I heard "You either ride for comfort or ride to crash!" about a dozen times. I'm not going to do without the gear... but I'm seriously looking at a mesh-type textile jacket. I've had a leather jacket for years.

I just came back from a long trip to Alabama and it was hot every day. The crusier guys I was with couldn't believe that I wore my Areostich one piece all the time.

Better hot than Hamburger I always say! But then I'm preaching to the choir here.

 

[uctofeej]

I wear ATTGATT throughout the summer in Louisiana, but I try to avoid mid-day rides. If I'm on a trip in this heat, I soak a t-shirt in water to wear under the mesh jacket.

Oh yeah, and I pray for rain the whole way.